In 2004, Lionel Messi made his debut in the Champions League. Since then, the “little flea” has been hitting like a conveyor belt. SOCCERSCORE takes a look at its CL statistics, its goals in the premier class and titles.
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Barcelona and Liverpool were at eye level in the first leg 3-0, with Lionel Messi once again making the decisive difference.
In the 75th minute, he was in the right place at the right time and dusted off to 2-0, before seven minutes later, he was circling a 29-meter free-kick into an untenable angle. For the first time in four years, he scored again in a CL semi-final (then doubled his 3-0 lead against FC Bayern).
With twelve goals to his name, he is the top scorer in the current season – more goals in one CL season last 2011/12 (14). He could become CL’s top scorer for the sixth time – only Cristiano Ronaldo (seven times) can beat him. With 15 goal participations, Messi is also the top scorer in this CL season (12 goals, 3 assists).
In 134 games in the Champions League, Messi scored an incredible 112 times. Here you can see the distribution, in which nrounds the Argentinean hits mainly.
Messi, who was born in June 1987, could win the Champions League for the fifth time and catch up with record winners Cristiano Ronaldo and Clarence Seedorf.
He could also join Gerad Pique in raising the eleven players who have won the Henkel pot (national cup + champions league) five times – only Paco Gente did it more often (six times).
The 3-0 was Lionel Messi’s 600th goal for Barcelona – his first goal was scored exactly 14 years earlier (on 1 May 2005 against Albacete). For his 600 goals he only needed 683 compulsory games – he scored 0.9 goals per game!
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